Darcus Howe, well-respected West Indian-born intellectual, New Statesman columnist, TV host and political activist, was interviewed on the BBC about the rioting in London and he eloquently stated what a lot of people in the UK must be thinking right about now:

“I don’t call it rioting. I call it an insurrection of the masses of the people. It is happening in Syria, it is happening in Clapham, it is happening in Liverpool, it is happening in Port of Spain, Trinidad.”